It was instructive to read about South Holland District Council’s decision to purchase the 23-acre Moulton Park to provide recreational space for the local community.
This contrasts sharply with the reaction of the council when, in 2003 and at a time when the authority’s financial position was much healthier than it is now, it was approached for relatively modest financial support to help develop Surfleet’s Glen Park.
Although we owned only seven acres, they dismissed our appeal with a brusque: “Sell some land.”
Then three years ago when Glen Park applied for £3,390 to save the children’s playground from closure, the council preferred instead to give £30,000 from its community grants fund to a commercial organisation with £2m in the bank.
Who would have thought that the cosy coterie of commercially-connected Conservatives who control South Holland District Council has the community’s interests at heart? Or is there more to it than that?
Doug Whyles
Seas End Road
Surfleet
